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My Thoughts on #ManBookers2017 Shortlist

Some critics have hailed this year short list as one of the best ever or atleast better than last years top 6. I will not fully agree to that but this is surely a brave set of books. Heavyweights like Anundathi Roy’s Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railway were two big names absentees from the shortlist. A welcome absence was Zaide Smith’s Swing time which was too painful to read for me. I avoided writing a review for it which after an interesting start, was a let down by very slow pace and monotonous narration. USA and UK dominated this years short-list with 3 each authors in the shortist.

Here are this year’s top 6:

Exit West By Mohsin Hamid

It was my first book from this year’s long list and though I enjoyed the first half of the book but disappointing end of the book. I rated in 3.5 out of 5 on goodreads.